Acton, Loren, 1936-

Loren Wilber Acton (b. March 7, 1936) is an American physicist who flew on Space Shuttle mission STS-51-F as a Payload Specialist.

Loren W. Acton; born March 7, 1936, Lewiston, Montana; BS, Montana State University, 1959; PhD, University of Colorado, 1965; worked as senior staff scientist with the Space Sciences Laboratory, Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory, California; Member of Challenger (1985); over 190 hours in space